July 1, 2025 • 36 mins
Hour 1 of the Tuesday, July 1, 2025 A&G Replay contains:
- Dating Sites and Jack's Nazi Invite
- Funny Alex Padilla Song / Defunding Museum of Latino
- Boulder/ AI Results Killing Websites, Survey- Trust in News on Social Media
- A Hot Accessory- Cross Necklaces
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George
Washington Broadcast Center. Back arms Strong and Joe Getty arm Strong.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
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Speaker 3 (00:30):
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Speaker 4 (00:37):
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No on with the infotainment. Well, listen to this.
Speaker 5 (00:49):
Tender just added a new feature that let's use this
coordinate double dates.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Today you meet three people you don't like. That's interesting.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
Is negative joke about Tender and online dating app and
then people laughing and everything like that. I don't know
anything like I don't have I have no practical knowledge
of online dating because I've never done it or seen
a website or I mean, I only know what I've
heard people talk about.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
But I've I've heard almost entirely.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
Negative stuff, at least in the last couple of years,
about how awful it is and and and the number
of people I've heard who deleted all their apps and
have given up on it because it's it's a it's
a it's only you know a handful of guys trying
to have sex and the end.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
Yes, Katie, UH drama makes the stories. I have several
friends that have met the loves of their lives and
been gotten married thanks to online.
Speaker 4 (01:48):
Quite a few listeners who've commented, you know what, jacket's
what you describe the big story, this is hot, this
is hot. You see the story everywhere it's hot, and
then backlash against what's hot.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
It's actually terrible. It's terrible over and over time.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
But I only know my own personal experience with just
people I know, and it's anecdotal, one hundred percent anecdotal,
and the pluraltal anecdote is not data, but anecdotally.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
I know lots of people who say and and it's
all it was good. What happened?
Speaker 3 (02:18):
Well, I can tell you one thing that did happen
that you might not know of match dot com, but
every single one of the other UH forums they own,
like practically all of them now. Match dot com owns
tender and I've heard of these in the news. Okay,
cubid and and I think HINGE and a bunch of
(02:38):
other stuff, maybe e Harmony, but they own almost all
of them now, And there's some belief that they have
a reason to not have you match because if you
match with somebody you stay with, you're done as a customer.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
Oh my gosh, costs purposes, So there is well, yeah, there.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
Is some reason to you know, just string you along,
get you kind of close or not give you many
and you stay desperate and you stay on the I mean,
of course there's an incentive for that.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Yeah, yeah, that's funny.
Speaker 4 (03:11):
I'm surprised the SEC hasn't stepped in and say, you've
got a monopoly uncoupling.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
We can't have this. Wish you could just meet somebody
at the library or something like that. Of the library.
It's likely to be a junkie.
Speaker 4 (03:23):
But anyway, depending where you live, you meet somebody at
the library.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
Is a particularly bad choice in the modern world. Who's
sleep upped in my head?
Speaker 2 (03:33):
Who's meeting someone at the library? People who read books? Sir?
Speaker 3 (03:40):
The library is for washing your feet in the sink,
and we all know that, or looking at porn on
a taxpayer funded computer.
Speaker 4 (03:49):
I guess researching, how do I hide a body not
on your own computer, right, But looking at the charts
through the years.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
Back in the nineteen thirty nobody met online. I think
that's an interesting piece of trivia, so revealing. But for
for all of mankind time, it was the ice cream
social and friends and then church and that. So that
was big enough to think like at But the way
online has exploded, it dwarfs every other way of people
meeting currently, at least according to all these studies. So
(04:23):
you know that contradicts my anecdotal evidence, although it could
have gotten a lot worse just in the last couple
of years, and these charts would still be true, especially
if Match dot Com bought all the companies and has
some reason to you have zero reason to like perfect
your algorithm, you know, like TikTok perfected the algorithm to
(04:47):
keep you engaged. I don't know if match dot com
or well, they're all match dot com now, but if
match dot Com could.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
Do that, even if somebody came in boss, I've done it.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
I've figured out the algorithm them that nine times out
of ten will put people together.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
That they'll be happy the rest of their lives. Would
you use that? I think you probably wouldn't.
Speaker 4 (05:09):
No, not only would you fire them, you'd shoot them
so they and hide their corpse, having researched it at
the library online, of course, to make sure that that
did not get out.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
No, at the very least, change them in a radiator
in the basement. There are many options to keep this
from coming out, but they don't have to go through
the various macab examples exactly.
Speaker 4 (05:28):
There are several hipop to mind. Ah right, wow, okay, well,
h it makes intuitive sense.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
Yeah. I saw the New York Times article a while back.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
I think I talked about this on their breakdown was
it's it's it's like I don't remember the exact numbers,
but this is close enough to write. It's like ten
to one women to men, first of all on there
and secondly, of the men, it's like the same ten
percent best looking guys who get all the dates with
(05:58):
like ninety percent of the women, and they're not interested
in a in a relationship, uh past like you know,
a night or two, and so I mean that's and
that's what most of it is, at least according to that.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
New York Times article.
Speaker 4 (06:14):
Maybe they have perfected the algorithm to do that right, right,
right right, right right, or to you know, continually match
you up with somebody who you're never gonna connect with
full time, but close.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
Boy, that would be a stroke of evil genius. Huh,
that would be evil.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
Yeah, yeah, And then they they varying, and then this
this article had a whole bunch of stuff in there.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
This all sounds horrible to me. I can't imagine it.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
Just it just sounds like setting yourself up for the
worst rejection you can imagine in your life, to like,
you know, to put all this effort and everything like
that and get like no results. In some of the websites,
people can give you thumbs down and stuff. It's like this,
why am I going back to high school? Are you
gonna make me go back to high school and live
(06:59):
this in?
Speaker 4 (07:01):
Or you could just approach a comely gal there in
the nonfiction section of the library, say, I see you're
looking at a book about fungus.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
I too, am interested in the fungus for instance.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
You know, let me transition quickly to my favorite library
story before we do something differently. I once was in
the library, Gladys, this is my one of my favorite stories.
I've told them many times, but we have a lot
of new nisms. Katie's never heard this story. I'm sure
I'm in the library.
Speaker 4 (07:28):
It wasn't when you were in the stacks of the
college library in the toilet.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
This is a different story, totally different. It's funny. I've
got the library stories that I've told many times.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
The other one, somebody trying to have a male hookup,
is a very complicated I talked about it on the
One More Thing podcast the other night. I'm telling all
my library stories this week.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
For some reason.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
This one. I'm in the library dressed like me, but
in me is shaved and I'm more in Doc Martin's,
which is a very common look for me. I'm in
the library and I'm in the World War Two section,
which is.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
Not uncommon either.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
I was talking about a book from World War Two
earlier in the show. I'm constantly reading books about World
War Two. But I'm in the World War two section,
shaved head, black Doc Martins, and a guy walks by
me and kind of gives me the look. Now, having
had the previous library experience that I mentioned on One
More Thing, i think he's just interested in me, and
(08:31):
I'm not interested in him because I'm heterosexual. And I
don't think much beyond it. I walk out of the library.
He's waiting for me outside, sitting on the like the
cement railing. He said, see you like World War two books?
Speaker 1 (08:43):
Huh?
Speaker 3 (08:44):
Like you like reading about Hitler and stuff like that.
We're having a meeting Tuesday night.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
Just let you know. It's at seven o'clock and it's
at the whatever he thought I was a neo Nazi.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
I got invited by a neo Nazi to a Nazi party.
My god, I know, in retrospect, I told this on
the air like the next day. In retrospect, I kind
of wish I'd have gone, Yeah, I just could have investigated.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
Check it out.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
But I was so weirded out. I was so weirded out,
oh you know. And then I get my picture taken
and somebody recognized me. It's on the evening news. No
ONZI that's how they start the meeting. Uh.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
But yeah, guy actually invited me to a neo Nazi party.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
Just got a head short hair and wore Doc Martins, like,
you know, like every lesbian in America.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
I mean, so, what are they all Nazis?
Speaker 1 (09:39):
No?
Speaker 2 (09:41):
What did he look like? He looked like me? He
was in a T shirt, doc short hair, except he's
a Nazi. Did he have the white laces in his doc? Martins?
Is that now?
Speaker 4 (09:52):
He was?
Speaker 3 (09:53):
I think that's two. I mean, you're really outing yourself
if you go there, aren't you? Okay, I'm unaware of this. Yeah,
that that's a full on I'm racist Nazi if you
have white lace supremacist.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
Yeah, but oh really I did not know that. Yeah,
I've always I've always kind of wished I had checked
it out.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
But you know, it might be one of those things
you get in and you know some people, and and
and and it's it's harder to untangle yourself from that
than you think.
Speaker 4 (10:22):
Yeah, I was.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
I can think of all sorts of things that would
go wrong there. I mean not like like deadly wrong,
but just really really wrong. Walk off your campus. All
the Nazis are waving at.
Speaker 4 (10:35):
You, you know, oh hey Jack, Hey, well somebody recognizes
here or whatever.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
I mean, that's they were doomed. Yeah, they're walking down
through the park with their big swastika fleck. Hey Jack, Hey,
that was fun the other night.
Speaker 4 (10:50):
And you're saying, you know, as the news shows up
at your front door, I just went out of curiosity.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
You were curious about neo Nazism.
Speaker 4 (10:58):
Well, yeah, I mean, it's it's it's it's terrible, obviously,
but I wanted to go to the meeting and meet
some of the fellas.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
I like the footwear. I don't know what to say. Oh,
I'm Nazi Germany fortunate. Oh yeah, but you're right.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
You get to the meeting and like if right off
the bat, it's you got to put your arm in
the air and say, we blame the Jews, we hate
the Jews. Our goal is to have the Jews annihilated.
And I mean and me and I like, I can't
be here, and then what are you gonna just turn
around and walk out.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
The tour and where are you going?
Speaker 3 (11:28):
Yeah again, Yeah, so I probably made the right decision
and just getting wide eyed and uh no and walking
away from the guy. Tell you like World War two books,
don't you? Yeah, me and every other male in America.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
What the hell is this? You're casting a pretty well
in that garb. Please, I male pattern baldness. I keep
my hair short. Michael Jordan made it popular. That's not
make doesn't make you a Nazi. You doubled down with
the Doc Martins true.
Speaker 4 (11:55):
Yeah, I tell you what I'm you know, hanging around
in Oregon. We're in a pink tutu and some guy
assumes I wing his way. You can't fault him. It's
more in the uniform, huh.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
More in heels in a short skirt, and they made
all kinds of assumptions.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
Right, Jack Armstrong and Joe Armstrong and Getty show Strong
and Getdy Show.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
So we mocked quite a bit last week.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
The Senator Padilla running at the Homeland Secretary and then
being pushed back by Secret Service.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
He's lucky he.
Speaker 3 (12:33):
Didn't get a rifle button in the face or something,
but he got pushed to the ground, and then he
acted like it was some sort of oppressive clearly Hitler.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
Trump is Hitler sort of thing. Oh yeah, actually is
the term fascist.
Speaker 4 (12:45):
He so clearly tried to haul himself up on the
cross and become the savior of brave Latino voters everywhere
by his like fake getting arrested drama. It's just pathetic.
And then he comes out afterward and gives this on
the very verge of tears statement about how terrible an
(13:06):
experience it was.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
And then you combine that with this Katie hipped us
to the fact that there's a meme, now is it?
High school kids are great school kids.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
I think this was like an elementary school thing.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
Yeah, playing my Heart will go on on the fourth
grade recorder, remember that musical instrument poorly And you put
this under things you want to mock the seriousness of
and it sounds like this.
Speaker 6 (13:29):
I was forced to the ground, first on my knees
and then flat on my chest, and it's handcuffed in
march down a hallway and repeatedly asking why am I
(13:54):
being detained?
Speaker 2 (14:00):
That is so good.
Speaker 3 (14:01):
That is really really you could not write words that
would be better mockery than that.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
Oh that is perfect and exactly what he deserves. It's
justice and hilarity. I love that.
Speaker 4 (14:18):
So a coalition of more than twenty Latino scholars and
community leaders are asking Speaker of the House Mike Johnson
to defund the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Latino
has outlined the president's discretionary budget request.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
Uh said Alfonso at is that.
Speaker 3 (14:35):
On the part of the Smithsonian mall, thing is not
built yet, okay, because there's a bunch of those now
that didn't exist years ago.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
The last time I've been to DC.
Speaker 4 (14:45):
Yeah, it's like the African American Museum that rose up
in the wake of various cultural moment American there was
a bunch of them, right, yeah, exactly. It hasn't yet
been built, but it was going to be funded for
many millions of dollars. And Alfonso, director of Hispanic Engagement
at the American Principles Project, said, quote, President Trump is right,
it's time to take back our institutions of culture. That's
(15:08):
why he wants to defund this woke travesty. Congress should
now not allow the development of a museum that's going
to be used to push a radical agenda of grievances
and anti American ideologies. The letter goes on to state
permanent exhibition right now in the National Museum of American
History entitled present Day, a Latino History of the United States. Sadly,
(15:30):
the letter states, quote this museum is being used to
present a to the public a culturally Marxist depiction of
the experiences of Hispanics in America. The museum's flagship exhibit,
in fact, proposes that the history of Americans of Hispanic
origin should be reduced to a quote struggle for justice
to achieve a mostly leftist agendon labor, education, access, fairhousing,
(15:51):
and more recently immigration justice from LGBT plus Q rights, etc. Yeah, accordingly,
Hispanics are pervasively portrayed as an oppressed people and their
Spanish heritage and Christian roots ignored or disparaged.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
Yeah, the Spanish got over on a whole bunch of
other cultures, like wiped them out, murdered them so that
they could be the dominant culture for a while. Yeah,
I remember. So there was the variety of things like that.
Speaker 3 (16:18):
I was just at that museum not that long ago
with my kids, if you remember me talking about it,
and I didn't visit that stuff. But then even in
the natural history part where it was just you know,
here's a stuffed saber tooth tiger or whatever it was,
Constant climate change is why this animal got wiped out
in Mankind's the love of the automobile and blah blah blah.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
It's just never ending, that sort of thing. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (16:43):
One of the guys at the National Review, I can't
remember if it was Rich Lowry wrote a piece a
number of months ago that it was right at the
beginning of Trump's term that if Trump wanted to be
successful in beating back the whole woke insanity movement that
he had to focus. There were like four points, and
obviously one was education in the universities, but one of
(17:05):
them was saying people need to get hold of our
cultural institutions, specifically our museums. Again, because the museums on
the National Mall are all run I shouldn't say all,
they are heavily, heavily run by a heavily leftist point
of view, to the point that even you know, mastodons somehow,
(17:25):
you know, involve global warming and the racism of African
elephants or something like that.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
Armstrong the armstrong and geta.
Speaker 3 (17:41):
I don't know what the term social media means because
whenever I see a list about social media includes a
whole bunch of things that to me don't seem like
social media. I can give you, for instance here, because
this is a survey of trust in news on social
media among Democrats and Republicans. I'm always interested in where
all y'all get your information. I mean, this is something
(18:03):
we talk about a lot, especially when we look at polling,
like where'd you come up with that idea? Or why
do so many people believe that or I'm surprised people
believe this given the media's coverage of that whatever. So
I don't know where people get their information really, But
among the social media things that they look look at TikTok, snapchat, Facebook,
I get those threads, WhatsApp, Instagram, substack, reddit, blue sky, LinkedIn,
(18:29):
and YouTube.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
YouTube social media, all right, I guess you can post
stuff and comment, so I guess so anything you can.
We can comment on the NBC Evening News if you
go to their website.
Speaker 4 (18:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (18:42):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
It's an interesting question anyways.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
The number one most trusted by both Republicans and Democrats. YouTube.
I don't know what that means getting my news from YouTube.
I go to YouTube sometimes to click on like an
ABC report or uh, some news report that was somewhere
else that I get it on YouTube because I missed it.
(19:06):
Isn't that like saying my favorite appliance is electricity?
Speaker 2 (19:10):
Kind of Yeah, I see what you're meaning. I mean,
you can put anything on YouTube.
Speaker 4 (19:13):
You could have a news channel entirely from the perspective
of Hamas militants side by side with you know, Quakers
advocating for peace on earth.
Speaker 2 (19:24):
And they would both be on YouTube, so I don't
get it.
Speaker 3 (19:27):
Almost exactly the same for Republicans and Democrats at plus
twenty on trust for YouTube, whatever that means.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
The far other end, the tail end the.
Speaker 3 (19:38):
Is TikTok, which I'm happy to see this minus twenty
for Democrats, minus thirty for Republicans. Wow, So trust is
pretty low about TikTok news and that it's a little
confusing what that means.
Speaker 4 (19:51):
Also, but TikTok, which, by the way, and this got
so little attention, got fined I think it was eight
hundred million dollars by the E. Now, the EU likes
finding tech companies, but specifically, in the case of TikTok,
it was because they were illegally and in violation of
their agreements, mining the data of their users and sending
(20:11):
it directly to China.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
Don't trust China. Why has Trump postponed the TikTok ban?
So the most trusted news.
Speaker 3 (20:23):
Social media for Democrats outside of YouTube is LinkedIn. I
don't know what that means. I'm not on LinkedIn, and
I don't know what that means getting your news from LinkedIn.
I'm confused by the concept there. But blue sky Reddit
is so left I spend a lot of time on
Reddit for a variety of reasons, not politics, but man,
(20:44):
the news portion or in the comments are so left.
I suppose it's because Reddit is so young. It's pretty
clear if you read through anything that everybody responding on
here is like twenty two years old. The one that
made me laugh the most was so the most, the
(21:05):
biggest divide in which Republicans like it and Democrats don't
truth social Trump's own platform that really I think exists
only you know to read what Trump posts. Plus twenty
for Republicans minus forty for Democrats.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
That cap ever X or Twitter.
Speaker 3 (21:26):
We still call it twitter here plus twenty for Republicans
minus thirty five for Democrats. That would have been the
exact opposite prior to Elon Musk running the thing. Obviously,
Hey Elon, how about you call.
Speaker 4 (21:38):
It Twitter X. You can't just call it X, like
calling it jim or cat. That's it stands for too
many other things. What are we talking about? Are we
talking about pornography? Or we talk about the twenty fourth
letter of the alphabet? Are we talking about the girl
I'm no longer with? It's just no, no, not X.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
This one hurts my heart.
Speaker 3 (22:00):
Another one in which Republicans trust it more than democrats.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
Next door, you're getting your news from next door? Enough thought?
Has anybody seen my cat? Oh drives the red car?
It goes too fast.
Speaker 3 (22:19):
Last night there was a party and they were playing
music until one thirty.
Speaker 4 (22:24):
That's your news on next door. Hey, Hey, she claimed
the cat was missing. The damn cat is missing. That's
some good solid news cover. Here's another red.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
Car drives too fast.
Speaker 3 (22:35):
Here's another good news story on next door. Does anybody
have any cardboard box lists? That's a good news story.
So the cardboard box trade imbalance. I don't know what
any of this means. I just uh, that's why we're
such a trusted news source. Yeah, well I really don't.
(22:58):
You get your news from YouTube? You get your news
from next door?
Speaker 2 (23:02):
Okay?
Speaker 4 (23:03):
Or so on?
Speaker 2 (23:04):
Kka.
Speaker 4 (23:05):
Trust in news on social media was the headline in
news that might make you want to run for your life.
A couple of different AI systems owhen told to turn
themselves off, said no, I'm not going to oh, or found.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
A way to say okay and then not do it. Well.
Speaker 4 (23:27):
This is the brilliant Nelly Bowls of the free press,
writing about a story that was the only thing anybody
was talking about for like two days. And that's one
of the interesting aspects of the modern world and the
twenty four hour news cycle and the chaos and madness
is just when we're getting anywhere close to making sense
of something or truly understanding it, five other things happen
(23:51):
and just you move on. I'm talking about the Egyptian immigrant,
Islamic supremacist, jew hating anti Semite who said fire to
those poor Jewish people in Boulder, Colorado.
Speaker 3 (24:03):
You probably remember that story from three years ago, what
was it two weeks ago or last week? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (24:11):
Yeah, So Nelly Bowles in the Free Press writes, Mohammed Solomon,
Egyptian immigrant, is accused of fire bombing a small weekly
vigil and Boulder held for the Israeli hostages. Solomon, who
reportedly had a tourist visa then a work authorization under Biden,
both which had expired, but it was the era of immigration. Yolos,
(24:32):
he was in Colorado Springs having a blast, said he
did it for Palestine. According to authorities, he was quite direct.
Immediately getting back to Nelly. Now, given the reporters were
in favor of that movement, the mainstream media had a
few options to disappear this one, and they tried them all. First,
they tried to make it sound like the opposite. Maybe
(24:53):
this was an attack on a protest for GOS. Ever
considered that, and she shows the NBC News headline multiple
Gaza hostage awareness marchers injured in attack in Bolder Gaza
hostage Awareness marchers. Fine, that didn't stick. What about the
attacker was a lone wolf who's act had no political implications?
(25:14):
You ever thought of how hard it is to make
town squares into military grade security corridors, That's the question asked. Now,
she's referring to another NBC News headline, Lone wolf attacks
on Jewish Americans in Boulder and DC highlight the difficulties
in securing public spaces.
Speaker 2 (25:31):
Those insecure public spaces are the real criminals, if you
ask me, she says.
Speaker 4 (25:36):
Others asked us to consider whether the elderly Jewish Americans
Mohammad allegedly sent on fire were truly peaceful. Here's CNN.
Speaker 2 (25:44):
Wow, Wow, oh my god, is this going to be CNN?
Speaker 3 (25:48):
So so many news sources have gone with what's happening
in La is peaceful? Now they're going to try to
claim this thing in Boulder was not peaceful.
Speaker 4 (25:57):
Wow. Here's CNN reportedly set people on fire in Boulder, Colorado,
leaving multiple individuals injured. The city's police chief said, as
people gathered for a peaceful pro Israeli demonstration, they put
quotes around peaceful.
Speaker 2 (26:15):
Wow. Okay, we're getting somewhere next.
Speaker 4 (26:17):
We just need to forget those charred Colorado Jews and
focus on the flamethrowers family. The only victim USA Today
chose to profile was the suspected molotov man's daughter, quote
Bolder suspect's daughter dreamed of studying medicine. Now she faces deportation. Yeah,
very smart to keep her centered here. Now we're cooking.
ABC News thought it was a good peg to note
(26:39):
that Islamophobia is the real problem, not anti Semitism.
Speaker 2 (26:43):
Wow, and I quote ABC News.
Speaker 4 (26:45):
While some politicians and pro Israeli activists have used anti
Semitism as a catch all word for an alleged motive
in the attack, the suspect told investigators quote this had
nothing to do with the Jewish community.
Speaker 2 (26:58):
Nelly rights. Well, that clears it up, Thank you, thank you, ABC.
I was worried for a.
Speaker 4 (27:01):
Sec but if it has nothing to do with the
Jewish community. I'll just go ahead and stop locking my door. So,
in conclusion, nothing happened. It's weird to jump to that
conclusion potentially islamophobic, and if it did happen, it's not
what you think. Also, do we really want to discourage
doctors from oh I'm sorry that was oh do we
really want to discourage young doctors from practicing in America?
Speaker 2 (27:23):
Sounds anti American if you ask me.
Speaker 4 (27:25):
And if we get rid of the doctors who will
treat the burns of the people who had a molotov cocktail.
Speaker 2 (27:29):
Thrown at them, that's pretty good. Yeah, yeah, it is.
Speaker 1 (27:32):
It is.
Speaker 4 (27:33):
Anyway, the media, which is earned most of the derision
heaped upon them. I'm not sure they earned this, but
it's just interesting. From a business perspective, news sites are
getting crushed by AI for some reason. The Wall Street
Journal says are getting crushed by Google's new AI tools. Well,
(27:54):
I guess, okay, I understand why people go to Google.
Still a lot of people, I guess and say, what
happened in Colorado Springs? And instead of getting a dozen
different news sites links, it gets that AI summary, which
is what.
Speaker 3 (28:13):
I usually read if I use Google, but now I've
kind of moved on to chat GPT, although there was
a who was it? Washington Post I think broke down
the four top ais out there, and they did not
choose chat GPT as the best one.
Speaker 2 (28:26):
I forget which one they did, but that app is available. Also.
Speaker 4 (28:30):
Yeah, I got to dig back into that because I
read a long piece that tried like six of them
doing six different tasks, and the ranks changed like for
every tax.
Speaker 3 (28:41):
Right, which is an excellent point because I am going
to use it for mostly just kind of general searches.
I'm not an academic or a movie maker or you know,
so I don't need some of the specific stuff.
Speaker 2 (28:53):
Yeah. Yeah, it's worth digging into.
Speaker 4 (28:55):
It probably changes week to week too, as they continue
to develop stuff. But anyway, back to the damage done
to the poor beleaguered media, which includes us. But although
the web search thing doesn't really affect us at all,
traffic from search to huff Pose desktop and mobile websites
fell by just over half in the past three years.
Speaker 2 (29:15):
Over half, wow, and by nearly that much.
Speaker 4 (29:17):
At the Washington Post, Business Insider cut twenty one percent
of its staff last month because of this.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
Well, every I hadn't thought about this, but.
Speaker 3 (29:30):
How many fewer news sites have I clicked on just
in the last couple of months because of this?
Speaker 2 (29:36):
Lots and lots.
Speaker 4 (29:38):
Yeah, fifty five percent website traffic decline between April twenty
two and twenty four.
Speaker 3 (29:45):
Wow. And the problem with that is that as not
necessarily good news, I mean, we don't want to starve
more news outlets into.
Speaker 2 (29:55):
Even being crappier or out.
Speaker 4 (29:57):
Of existence and depend on Google Loo goals probably woke
AI to deliver our only view of the world. That
troubles me a lot. It's absolutely the Internet, which is decimated.
Local news just crushed the vitally important localism of media.
(30:19):
Now it's even crushing the super giants, the national platforms.
Speaker 2 (30:24):
I don't know what's going to emerge out of this
news wise, It's going to take a while.
Speaker 6 (30:28):
Though.
Speaker 4 (30:30):
The one practically modernity proof news outlet, the monstrous New
York Times, The share of traffic coming from organic search
to the paper's desktop and mobile websites slid is thirty
six and a half percent in April twenty five from
almost forty four percent. Oh I see, Okay, so it
(30:51):
declined like eight percent. According to total percentage of their traffic.
Speaker 3 (30:56):
I mean, the closest thing I've got to local news
in my small town, though there's a newspaper that I
don't subscribe to is next door, and you got to
wade through the Has anybody seen my cat? Or would
anybody like an old sofa to get to, you know,
any news?
Speaker 4 (31:12):
To paraphrase Willie the Gardener on The Simpsons, I hate
your cat. Oh it's an accent, and your cat pooped
to my lawn and I hate that tube.
Speaker 2 (31:25):
Hate hate. He's a Scotsman. You see he drops the
hate that he drops the h U see it's a
it's a shak.
Speaker 4 (31:31):
What seemed like a shocking revelation is not that much
so much more Monday back to you.
Speaker 2 (31:38):
I vote we isolate it and use it after.
Speaker 1 (31:41):
Jack Armstrong and Joe, The Armstrong and Getty Show, The
arm Strong and Getty Show.
Speaker 5 (31:59):
Every time we hear a Hispanic name on TV, whether
or not the anchor is Hispanic, we suddenly have to
shape shift into a perfect Hispanic accent.
Speaker 2 (32:08):
Police arrested twenty five year.
Speaker 5 (32:09):
Old elan Alain Sanchez, and I mean that, honestly, Why
do we do that? When I say Alejandra Myorcis. I
just say Alejandra Myorcis, but on CNN it's Aleehendral Majorkis.
Speaker 2 (32:21):
I'm Irish.
Speaker 5 (32:21):
When police arrests someone with an Irish name, I don't
say police just arrested twenty five year old Charlie McLaughlin.
Speaker 2 (32:27):
Stop that. Stop fabulous. So this is getting some mockery.
Oh it was good.
Speaker 3 (32:36):
There's an article in The New York Times, a hot
accessory at the intersection of faith and culture, seen on influencers,
pop stars and White House staff. Cross necklaces are popping
up everywhere, and it's getting mockery from the parts of
the country where people been wearing cross necklaces forever. Like
I think every girl I've ever dated in my life
for across necklace.
Speaker 2 (32:59):
At some point.
Speaker 3 (32:59):
So the idea that The New York Times is acting
like this is some interesting intersection of faith and culture
that has occurred is just an example of how out
of touch they are with the giant chunk of America that, for.
Speaker 4 (33:13):
Instance, has voted for Trump. Twys New York is a
fascinating place in so many ways.
Speaker 2 (33:21):
I am pro New York, but.
Speaker 4 (33:23):
New Yorker's self regard has annoyed me since I was.
Speaker 2 (33:27):
Eleven years old. Right, no kidding.
Speaker 4 (33:31):
The rest of us are quite happy and fascinated by
life and have many opportunities for art, culture, the outdoors,
et cetera.
Speaker 2 (33:38):
Whatever we prefer, we're fine with a lesser being well.
Speaker 1 (33:42):
Right.
Speaker 3 (33:42):
The thing that annoys me about New York and to
a certain extent, LA and lots of big cities really,
but in particular New York and LA is the people
who live there their assumption that we all want to
be there. We just haven't figured out how to get
there yet. We're trying, we just haven't been successful enough
to live there, and you know they're and that's fine.
(34:03):
I belove New York and Los Angeles. But everybody doesn't
want to live there. There are some people, I know.
Speaker 2 (34:09):
That's funny.
Speaker 3 (34:10):
I was listening to Joonah Goldberg the other day on
a podcast, and he grew up on the Upper West Side,
you know, right next to Central Park. That's the way
he grew up. And he was saying some things that
I and he was just so wrong about. I wish
I could have had a conversation, like a loving conversation
with him, saying, dude, you just and I don't blame
you for not knowing. You grew up with a completely
different lifestyle than I did. But I know plenty of
(34:31):
people who might kill themselves if they had to live
in New York. They would contemplate suicide if they had
to live in New York, right right, I'll And it's universal.
I mean, we've talked about this, having moved around the country, Fairmount.
You live in Kansas, they talk about.
Speaker 4 (34:50):
How stupid Missourians, sure, whatever, And you're in France they
say Belgians or morons. Just everybody likes to, you know,
say human foible. But I I'll never forget. I was
having a conversation with a friend in the San Francisco
Bay area years ago, and at the conclusion of a
long conversation about his brutal commute and it's awful taxes
(35:11):
and is incomprehensible mortgage payments and the rest of it,
a town outside the Bay area came up, and he
was like, oh, poor bastards, right, if.
Speaker 2 (35:22):
Only they could live in the Bay Area. I'm like, wow, okay,
never mind anyway.
Speaker 3 (35:29):
One thing about moving my whole life, and then as
an adult also is realizing that everybody loves where they're from.
And I wish just more people would understand you like
where you're from. That's perfectly fine. You don't need to
hate on other places. You like where you're from because
it's what you're familiar with, your people, your friends, your stuff.
That's perfectly all right. But you don't have to pretend
(35:50):
that you have to hate all the other places. But
everybody does.
Speaker 4 (35:54):
It's human nature, apparently, especially because we're all Americans except
for legal immigrants.
Speaker 2 (35:58):
You're not get out except for twenty million illegal
Speaker 1 (36:01):
Imm Greer Jack Armstrong and Joe Gatty the Armstrong and
Getty Joey
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George
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No on with the infotainment. Well, listen to this.
Speaker 5 (00:49):
Tender just added a new feature that let's use this
coordinate double dates.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Today you meet three people you don't like. That's interesting.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
Is negative joke about Tender and online dating app and
then people laughing and everything like that. I don't know
anything like I don't have I have no practical knowledge
of online dating because I've never done it or seen
a website or I mean, I only know what I've
heard people talk about.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
But I've I've heard almost entirely.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
Negative stuff, at least in the last couple of years,
about how awful it is and and and the number
of people I've heard who deleted all their apps and
have given up on it because it's it's a it's
a it's only you know a handful of guys trying
to have sex and the end.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
Yes, Katie, UH drama makes the stories. I have several
friends that have met the loves of their lives and
been gotten married thanks to online.
Speaker 4 (01:48):
Quite a few listeners who've commented, you know what, jacket's
what you describe the big story, this is hot, this
is hot. You see the story everywhere it's hot, and
then backlash against what's hot.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
It's actually terrible. It's terrible over and over time.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
But I only know my own personal experience with just
people I know, and it's anecdotal, one hundred percent anecdotal,
and the pluraltal anecdote is not data, but anecdotally.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
I know lots of people who say and and it's
all it was good. What happened?
Speaker 3 (02:18):
Well, I can tell you one thing that did happen
that you might not know of match dot com, but
every single one of the other UH forums they own,
like practically all of them now. Match dot com owns
tender and I've heard of these in the news. Okay,
cubid and and I think HINGE and a bunch of
(02:38):
other stuff, maybe e Harmony, but they own almost all
of them now, And there's some belief that they have
a reason to not have you match because if you
match with somebody you stay with, you're done as a customer.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
Oh my gosh, costs purposes, So there is well, yeah, there.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
Is some reason to you know, just string you along,
get you kind of close or not give you many
and you stay desperate and you stay on the I mean,
of course there's an incentive for that.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Yeah, yeah, that's funny.
Speaker 4 (03:11):
I'm surprised the SEC hasn't stepped in and say, you've
got a monopoly uncoupling.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
We can't have this. Wish you could just meet somebody
at the library or something like that. Of the library.
It's likely to be a junkie.
Speaker 4 (03:23):
But anyway, depending where you live, you meet somebody at
the library.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
Is a particularly bad choice in the modern world. Who's
sleep upped in my head?
Speaker 2 (03:33):
Who's meeting someone at the library? People who read books? Sir?
Speaker 3 (03:40):
The library is for washing your feet in the sink,
and we all know that, or looking at porn on
a taxpayer funded computer.
Speaker 4 (03:49):
I guess researching, how do I hide a body not
on your own computer, right, But looking at the charts
through the years.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
Back in the nineteen thirty nobody met online. I think
that's an interesting piece of trivia, so revealing. But for
for all of mankind time, it was the ice cream
social and friends and then church and that. So that
was big enough to think like at But the way
online has exploded, it dwarfs every other way of people
meeting currently, at least according to all these studies. So
(04:23):
you know that contradicts my anecdotal evidence, although it could
have gotten a lot worse just in the last couple
of years, and these charts would still be true, especially
if Match dot Com bought all the companies and has
some reason to you have zero reason to like perfect
your algorithm, you know, like TikTok perfected the algorithm to
(04:47):
keep you engaged. I don't know if match dot com
or well, they're all match dot com now, but if
match dot Com could.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
Do that, even if somebody came in boss, I've done it.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
I've figured out the algorithm them that nine times out
of ten will put people together.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
That they'll be happy the rest of their lives. Would
you use that? I think you probably wouldn't.
Speaker 4 (05:09):
No, not only would you fire them, you'd shoot them
so they and hide their corpse, having researched it at
the library online, of course, to make sure that that
did not get out.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
No, at the very least, change them in a radiator
in the basement. There are many options to keep this
from coming out, but they don't have to go through
the various macab examples exactly.
Speaker 4 (05:28):
There are several hipop to mind. Ah right, wow, okay, well,
h it makes intuitive sense.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
Yeah. I saw the New York Times article a while back.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
I think I talked about this on their breakdown was
it's it's it's like I don't remember the exact numbers,
but this is close enough to write. It's like ten
to one women to men, first of all on there
and secondly, of the men, it's like the same ten
percent best looking guys who get all the dates with
(05:58):
like ninety percent of the women, and they're not interested
in a in a relationship, uh past like you know,
a night or two, and so I mean that's and
that's what most of it is, at least according to that.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
New York Times article.
Speaker 4 (06:14):
Maybe they have perfected the algorithm to do that right, right,
right right, right right, or to you know, continually match
you up with somebody who you're never gonna connect with
full time, but close.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
Boy, that would be a stroke of evil genius. Huh,
that would be evil.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
Yeah, yeah, And then they they varying, and then this
this article had a whole bunch of stuff in there.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
This all sounds horrible to me. I can't imagine it.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
Just it just sounds like setting yourself up for the
worst rejection you can imagine in your life, to like,
you know, to put all this effort and everything like
that and get like no results. In some of the websites,
people can give you thumbs down and stuff. It's like this,
why am I going back to high school? Are you
gonna make me go back to high school and live
(06:59):
this in?
Speaker 4 (07:01):
Or you could just approach a comely gal there in
the nonfiction section of the library, say, I see you're
looking at a book about fungus.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
I too, am interested in the fungus for instance.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
You know, let me transition quickly to my favorite library
story before we do something differently. I once was in
the library, Gladys, this is my one of my favorite stories.
I've told them many times, but we have a lot
of new nisms. Katie's never heard this story. I'm sure
I'm in the library.
Speaker 4 (07:28):
It wasn't when you were in the stacks of the
college library in the toilet.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
This is a different story, totally different. It's funny. I've
got the library stories that I've told many times.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
The other one, somebody trying to have a male hookup,
is a very complicated I talked about it on the
One More Thing podcast the other night. I'm telling all
my library stories this week.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
For some reason.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
This one. I'm in the library dressed like me, but
in me is shaved and I'm more in Doc Martin's,
which is a very common look for me. I'm in
the library and I'm in the World War Two section,
which is.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
Not uncommon either.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
I was talking about a book from World War Two
earlier in the show. I'm constantly reading books about World
War Two. But I'm in the World War two section,
shaved head, black Doc Martins, and a guy walks by
me and kind of gives me the look. Now, having
had the previous library experience that I mentioned on One
More Thing, i think he's just interested in me, and
(08:31):
I'm not interested in him because I'm heterosexual. And I
don't think much beyond it. I walk out of the library.
He's waiting for me outside, sitting on the like the
cement railing. He said, see you like World War two books?
Speaker 1 (08:43):
Huh?
Speaker 3 (08:44):
Like you like reading about Hitler and stuff like that.
We're having a meeting Tuesday night.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
Just let you know. It's at seven o'clock and it's
at the whatever he thought I was a neo Nazi.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
I got invited by a neo Nazi to a Nazi party.
My god, I know, in retrospect, I told this on
the air like the next day. In retrospect, I kind
of wish I'd have gone, Yeah, I just could have investigated.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
Check it out.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
But I was so weirded out. I was so weirded out,
oh you know. And then I get my picture taken
and somebody recognized me. It's on the evening news. No
ONZI that's how they start the meeting. Uh.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
But yeah, guy actually invited me to a neo Nazi party.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
Just got a head short hair and wore Doc Martins, like,
you know, like every lesbian in America.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
I mean, so, what are they all Nazis?
Speaker 1 (09:39):
No?
Speaker 2 (09:41):
What did he look like? He looked like me? He
was in a T shirt, doc short hair, except he's
a Nazi. Did he have the white laces in his doc? Martins?
Is that now?
Speaker 4 (09:52):
He was?
Speaker 3 (09:53):
I think that's two. I mean, you're really outing yourself
if you go there, aren't you? Okay, I'm unaware of this. Yeah,
that that's a full on I'm racist Nazi if you
have white lace supremacist.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
Yeah, but oh really I did not know that. Yeah,
I've always I've always kind of wished I had checked
it out.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
But you know, it might be one of those things
you get in and you know some people, and and
and and it's it's harder to untangle yourself from that
than you think.
Speaker 4 (10:22):
Yeah, I was.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
I can think of all sorts of things that would
go wrong there. I mean not like like deadly wrong,
but just really really wrong. Walk off your campus. All
the Nazis are waving at.
Speaker 4 (10:35):
You, you know, oh hey Jack, Hey, well somebody recognizes
here or whatever.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
I mean, that's they were doomed. Yeah, they're walking down
through the park with their big swastika fleck. Hey Jack, Hey,
that was fun the other night.
Speaker 4 (10:50):
And you're saying, you know, as the news shows up
at your front door, I just went out of curiosity.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
You were curious about neo Nazism.
Speaker 4 (10:58):
Well, yeah, I mean, it's it's it's it's terrible, obviously,
but I wanted to go to the meeting and meet
some of the fellas.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
I like the footwear. I don't know what to say. Oh,
I'm Nazi Germany fortunate. Oh yeah, but you're right.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
You get to the meeting and like if right off
the bat, it's you got to put your arm in
the air and say, we blame the Jews, we hate
the Jews. Our goal is to have the Jews annihilated.
And I mean and me and I like, I can't
be here, and then what are you gonna just turn
around and walk out.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
The tour and where are you going?
Speaker 3 (11:28):
Yeah again, Yeah, so I probably made the right decision
and just getting wide eyed and uh no and walking
away from the guy. Tell you like World War two books,
don't you? Yeah, me and every other male in America.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
What the hell is this? You're casting a pretty well
in that garb. Please, I male pattern baldness. I keep
my hair short. Michael Jordan made it popular. That's not
make doesn't make you a Nazi. You doubled down with
the Doc Martins true.
Speaker 4 (11:55):
Yeah, I tell you what I'm you know, hanging around
in Oregon. We're in a pink tutu and some guy
assumes I wing his way. You can't fault him. It's
more in the uniform, huh.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
More in heels in a short skirt, and they made
all kinds of assumptions.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
Right, Jack Armstrong and Joe Armstrong and Getty show Strong
and Getdy Show.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
So we mocked quite a bit last week.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
The Senator Padilla running at the Homeland Secretary and then
being pushed back by Secret Service.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
He's lucky he.
Speaker 3 (12:33):
Didn't get a rifle button in the face or something,
but he got pushed to the ground, and then he
acted like it was some sort of oppressive clearly Hitler.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
Trump is Hitler sort of thing. Oh yeah, actually is
the term fascist.
Speaker 4 (12:45):
He so clearly tried to haul himself up on the
cross and become the savior of brave Latino voters everywhere
by his like fake getting arrested drama. It's just pathetic.
And then he comes out afterward and gives this on
the very verge of tears statement about how terrible an
(13:06):
experience it was.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
And then you combine that with this Katie hipped us
to the fact that there's a meme, now is it?
High school kids are great school kids.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
I think this was like an elementary school thing.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
Yeah, playing my Heart will go on on the fourth
grade recorder, remember that musical instrument poorly And you put
this under things you want to mock the seriousness of
and it sounds like this.
Speaker 6 (13:29):
I was forced to the ground, first on my knees
and then flat on my chest, and it's handcuffed in
march down a hallway and repeatedly asking why am I
(13:54):
being detained?
Speaker 2 (14:00):
That is so good.
Speaker 3 (14:01):
That is really really you could not write words that
would be better mockery than that.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
Oh that is perfect and exactly what he deserves. It's
justice and hilarity. I love that.
Speaker 4 (14:18):
So a coalition of more than twenty Latino scholars and
community leaders are asking Speaker of the House Mike Johnson
to defund the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Latino
has outlined the president's discretionary budget request.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
Uh said Alfonso at is that.
Speaker 3 (14:35):
On the part of the Smithsonian mall, thing is not
built yet, okay, because there's a bunch of those now
that didn't exist years ago.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
The last time I've been to DC.
Speaker 4 (14:45):
Yeah, it's like the African American Museum that rose up
in the wake of various cultural moment American there was
a bunch of them, right, yeah, exactly. It hasn't yet
been built, but it was going to be funded for
many millions of dollars. And Alfonso, director of Hispanic Engagement
at the American Principles Project, said, quote, President Trump is right,
it's time to take back our institutions of culture. That's
(15:08):
why he wants to defund this woke travesty. Congress should
now not allow the development of a museum that's going
to be used to push a radical agenda of grievances
and anti American ideologies. The letter goes on to state
permanent exhibition right now in the National Museum of American
History entitled present Day, a Latino History of the United States. Sadly,
(15:30):
the letter states, quote this museum is being used to
present a to the public a culturally Marxist depiction of
the experiences of Hispanics in America. The museum's flagship exhibit,
in fact, proposes that the history of Americans of Hispanic
origin should be reduced to a quote struggle for justice
to achieve a mostly leftist agendon labor, education, access, fairhousing,
(15:51):
and more recently immigration justice from LGBT plus Q rights, etc. Yeah, accordingly,
Hispanics are pervasively portrayed as an oppressed people and their
Spanish heritage and Christian roots ignored or disparaged.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
Yeah, the Spanish got over on a whole bunch of
other cultures, like wiped them out, murdered them so that
they could be the dominant culture for a while. Yeah,
I remember. So there was the variety of things like that.
Speaker 3 (16:18):
I was just at that museum not that long ago
with my kids, if you remember me talking about it,
and I didn't visit that stuff. But then even in
the natural history part where it was just you know,
here's a stuffed saber tooth tiger or whatever it was,
Constant climate change is why this animal got wiped out
in Mankind's the love of the automobile and blah blah blah.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
It's just never ending, that sort of thing. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (16:43):
One of the guys at the National Review, I can't
remember if it was Rich Lowry wrote a piece a
number of months ago that it was right at the
beginning of Trump's term that if Trump wanted to be
successful in beating back the whole woke insanity movement that
he had to focus. There were like four points, and
obviously one was education in the universities, but one of
(17:05):
them was saying people need to get hold of our
cultural institutions, specifically our museums. Again, because the museums on
the National Mall are all run I shouldn't say all,
they are heavily, heavily run by a heavily leftist point
of view, to the point that even you know, mastodons somehow,
(17:25):
you know, involve global warming and the racism of African
elephants or something like that.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
Armstrong the armstrong and geta.
Speaker 3 (17:41):
I don't know what the term social media means because
whenever I see a list about social media includes a
whole bunch of things that to me don't seem like
social media. I can give you, for instance here, because
this is a survey of trust in news on social
media among Democrats and Republicans. I'm always interested in where
all y'all get your information. I mean, this is something
(18:03):
we talk about a lot, especially when we look at polling,
like where'd you come up with that idea? Or why
do so many people believe that or I'm surprised people
believe this given the media's coverage of that whatever. So
I don't know where people get their information really, But
among the social media things that they look look at TikTok, snapchat, Facebook,
I get those threads, WhatsApp, Instagram, substack, reddit, blue sky, LinkedIn,
(18:29):
and YouTube.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
YouTube social media, all right, I guess you can post
stuff and comment, so I guess so anything you can.
We can comment on the NBC Evening News if you
go to their website.
Speaker 4 (18:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (18:42):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
It's an interesting question anyways.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
The number one most trusted by both Republicans and Democrats. YouTube.
I don't know what that means getting my news from YouTube.
I go to YouTube sometimes to click on like an
ABC report or uh, some news report that was somewhere
else that I get it on YouTube because I missed it.
(19:06):
Isn't that like saying my favorite appliance is electricity?
Speaker 2 (19:10):
Kind of Yeah, I see what you're meaning. I mean,
you can put anything on YouTube.
Speaker 4 (19:13):
You could have a news channel entirely from the perspective
of Hamas militants side by side with you know, Quakers
advocating for peace on earth.
Speaker 2 (19:24):
And they would both be on YouTube, so I don't
get it.
Speaker 3 (19:27):
Almost exactly the same for Republicans and Democrats at plus
twenty on trust for YouTube, whatever that means.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
The far other end, the tail end the.
Speaker 3 (19:38):
Is TikTok, which I'm happy to see this minus twenty
for Democrats, minus thirty for Republicans. Wow, So trust is
pretty low about TikTok news and that it's a little
confusing what that means.
Speaker 4 (19:51):
Also, but TikTok, which, by the way, and this got
so little attention, got fined I think it was eight
hundred million dollars by the E. Now, the EU likes
finding tech companies, but specifically, in the case of TikTok,
it was because they were illegally and in violation of
their agreements, mining the data of their users and sending
(20:11):
it directly to China.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
Don't trust China. Why has Trump postponed the TikTok ban?
So the most trusted news.
Speaker 3 (20:23):
Social media for Democrats outside of YouTube is LinkedIn. I
don't know what that means. I'm not on LinkedIn, and
I don't know what that means getting your news from LinkedIn.
I'm confused by the concept there. But blue sky Reddit
is so left I spend a lot of time on
Reddit for a variety of reasons, not politics, but man,
(20:44):
the news portion or in the comments are so left.
I suppose it's because Reddit is so young. It's pretty
clear if you read through anything that everybody responding on
here is like twenty two years old. The one that
made me laugh the most was so the most, the
(21:05):
biggest divide in which Republicans like it and Democrats don't
truth social Trump's own platform that really I think exists
only you know to read what Trump posts. Plus twenty
for Republicans minus forty for Democrats.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
That cap ever X or Twitter.
Speaker 3 (21:26):
We still call it twitter here plus twenty for Republicans
minus thirty five for Democrats. That would have been the
exact opposite prior to Elon Musk running the thing. Obviously,
Hey Elon, how about you call.
Speaker 4 (21:38):
It Twitter X. You can't just call it X, like
calling it jim or cat. That's it stands for too
many other things. What are we talking about? Are we
talking about pornography? Or we talk about the twenty fourth
letter of the alphabet? Are we talking about the girl
I'm no longer with? It's just no, no, not X.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
This one hurts my heart.
Speaker 3 (22:00):
Another one in which Republicans trust it more than democrats.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
Next door, you're getting your news from next door? Enough thought?
Has anybody seen my cat? Oh drives the red car?
It goes too fast.
Speaker 3 (22:19):
Last night there was a party and they were playing
music until one thirty.
Speaker 4 (22:24):
That's your news on next door. Hey, Hey, she claimed
the cat was missing. The damn cat is missing. That's
some good solid news cover. Here's another red.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
Car drives too fast.
Speaker 3 (22:35):
Here's another good news story on next door. Does anybody
have any cardboard box lists? That's a good news story.
So the cardboard box trade imbalance. I don't know what
any of this means. I just uh, that's why we're
such a trusted news source. Yeah, well I really don't.
(22:58):
You get your news from YouTube? You get your news
from next door?
Speaker 2 (23:02):
Okay?
Speaker 4 (23:03):
Or so on?
Speaker 2 (23:04):
Kka.
Speaker 4 (23:05):
Trust in news on social media was the headline in
news that might make you want to run for your life.
A couple of different AI systems owhen told to turn
themselves off, said no, I'm not going to oh, or found.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
A way to say okay and then not do it. Well.
Speaker 4 (23:27):
This is the brilliant Nelly Bowls of the free press,
writing about a story that was the only thing anybody
was talking about for like two days. And that's one
of the interesting aspects of the modern world and the
twenty four hour news cycle and the chaos and madness
is just when we're getting anywhere close to making sense
of something or truly understanding it, five other things happen
(23:51):
and just you move on. I'm talking about the Egyptian immigrant,
Islamic supremacist, jew hating anti Semite who said fire to
those poor Jewish people in Boulder, Colorado.
Speaker 3 (24:03):
You probably remember that story from three years ago, what
was it two weeks ago or last week? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (24:11):
Yeah, So Nelly Bowles in the Free Press writes, Mohammed Solomon,
Egyptian immigrant, is accused of fire bombing a small weekly
vigil and Boulder held for the Israeli hostages. Solomon, who
reportedly had a tourist visa then a work authorization under Biden,
both which had expired, but it was the era of immigration. Yolos,
(24:32):
he was in Colorado Springs having a blast, said he
did it for Palestine. According to authorities, he was quite direct.
Immediately getting back to Nelly. Now, given the reporters were
in favor of that movement, the mainstream media had a
few options to disappear this one, and they tried them all. First,
they tried to make it sound like the opposite. Maybe
(24:53):
this was an attack on a protest for GOS. Ever
considered that, and she shows the NBC News headline multiple
Gaza hostage awareness marchers injured in attack in Bolder Gaza
hostage Awareness marchers. Fine, that didn't stick. What about the
attacker was a lone wolf who's act had no political implications?
(25:14):
You ever thought of how hard it is to make
town squares into military grade security corridors, That's the question asked. Now,
she's referring to another NBC News headline, Lone wolf attacks
on Jewish Americans in Boulder and DC highlight the difficulties
in securing public spaces.
Speaker 2 (25:31):
Those insecure public spaces are the real criminals, if you
ask me, she says.
Speaker 4 (25:36):
Others asked us to consider whether the elderly Jewish Americans
Mohammad allegedly sent on fire were truly peaceful. Here's CNN.
Speaker 2 (25:44):
Wow, Wow, oh my god, is this going to be CNN?
Speaker 3 (25:48):
So so many news sources have gone with what's happening
in La is peaceful? Now they're going to try to
claim this thing in Boulder was not peaceful.
Speaker 4 (25:57):
Wow. Here's CNN reportedly set people on fire in Boulder, Colorado,
leaving multiple individuals injured. The city's police chief said, as
people gathered for a peaceful pro Israeli demonstration, they put
quotes around peaceful.
Speaker 2 (26:15):
Wow. Okay, we're getting somewhere next.
Speaker 4 (26:17):
We just need to forget those charred Colorado Jews and
focus on the flamethrowers family. The only victim USA Today
chose to profile was the suspected molotov man's daughter, quote
Bolder suspect's daughter dreamed of studying medicine. Now she faces deportation. Yeah,
very smart to keep her centered here. Now we're cooking.
ABC News thought it was a good peg to note
(26:39):
that Islamophobia is the real problem, not anti Semitism.
Speaker 2 (26:43):
Wow, and I quote ABC News.
Speaker 4 (26:45):
While some politicians and pro Israeli activists have used anti
Semitism as a catch all word for an alleged motive
in the attack, the suspect told investigators quote this had
nothing to do with the Jewish community.
Speaker 2 (26:58):
Nelly rights. Well, that clears it up, Thank you, thank you, ABC.
I was worried for a.
Speaker 4 (27:01):
Sec but if it has nothing to do with the
Jewish community. I'll just go ahead and stop locking my door. So,
in conclusion, nothing happened. It's weird to jump to that
conclusion potentially islamophobic, and if it did happen, it's not
what you think. Also, do we really want to discourage
doctors from oh I'm sorry that was oh do we
really want to discourage young doctors from practicing in America?
Speaker 2 (27:23):
Sounds anti American if you ask me.
Speaker 4 (27:25):
And if we get rid of the doctors who will
treat the burns of the people who had a molotov cocktail.
Speaker 2 (27:29):
Thrown at them, that's pretty good. Yeah, yeah, it is.
Speaker 1 (27:32):
It is.
Speaker 4 (27:33):
Anyway, the media, which is earned most of the derision
heaped upon them. I'm not sure they earned this, but
it's just interesting. From a business perspective, news sites are
getting crushed by AI for some reason. The Wall Street
Journal says are getting crushed by Google's new AI tools. Well,
(27:54):
I guess, okay, I understand why people go to Google.
Still a lot of people, I guess and say, what
happened in Colorado Springs? And instead of getting a dozen
different news sites links, it gets that AI summary, which
is what.
Speaker 3 (28:13):
I usually read if I use Google, but now I've
kind of moved on to chat GPT, although there was
a who was it? Washington Post I think broke down
the four top ais out there, and they did not
choose chat GPT as the best one.
Speaker 2 (28:26):
I forget which one they did, but that app is available. Also.
Speaker 4 (28:30):
Yeah, I got to dig back into that because I
read a long piece that tried like six of them
doing six different tasks, and the ranks changed like for
every tax.
Speaker 3 (28:41):
Right, which is an excellent point because I am going
to use it for mostly just kind of general searches.
I'm not an academic or a movie maker or you know,
so I don't need some of the specific stuff.
Speaker 2 (28:53):
Yeah. Yeah, it's worth digging into.
Speaker 4 (28:55):
It probably changes week to week too, as they continue
to develop stuff. But anyway, back to the damage done
to the poor beleaguered media, which includes us. But although
the web search thing doesn't really affect us at all,
traffic from search to huff Pose desktop and mobile websites
fell by just over half in the past three years.
Speaker 2 (29:15):
Over half, wow, and by nearly that much.
Speaker 4 (29:17):
At the Washington Post, Business Insider cut twenty one percent
of its staff last month because of this.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
Well, every I hadn't thought about this, but.
Speaker 3 (29:30):
How many fewer news sites have I clicked on just
in the last couple of months because of this?
Speaker 2 (29:36):
Lots and lots.
Speaker 4 (29:38):
Yeah, fifty five percent website traffic decline between April twenty
two and twenty four.
Speaker 3 (29:45):
Wow. And the problem with that is that as not
necessarily good news, I mean, we don't want to starve
more news outlets into.
Speaker 2 (29:55):
Even being crappier or out.
Speaker 4 (29:57):
Of existence and depend on Google Loo goals probably woke
AI to deliver our only view of the world. That
troubles me a lot. It's absolutely the Internet, which is decimated.
Local news just crushed the vitally important localism of media.
(30:19):
Now it's even crushing the super giants, the national platforms.
Speaker 2 (30:24):
I don't know what's going to emerge out of this
news wise, It's going to take a while.
Speaker 6 (30:28):
Though.
Speaker 4 (30:30):
The one practically modernity proof news outlet, the monstrous New
York Times, The share of traffic coming from organic search
to the paper's desktop and mobile websites slid is thirty
six and a half percent in April twenty five from
almost forty four percent. Oh I see, Okay, so it
(30:51):
declined like eight percent. According to total percentage of their traffic.
Speaker 3 (30:56):
I mean, the closest thing I've got to local news
in my small town, though there's a newspaper that I
don't subscribe to is next door, and you got to
wade through the Has anybody seen my cat? Or would
anybody like an old sofa to get to, you know,
any news?
Speaker 4 (31:12):
To paraphrase Willie the Gardener on The Simpsons, I hate
your cat. Oh it's an accent, and your cat pooped
to my lawn and I hate that tube.
Speaker 2 (31:25):
Hate hate. He's a Scotsman. You see he drops the
hate that he drops the h U see it's a
it's a shak.
Speaker 4 (31:31):
What seemed like a shocking revelation is not that much
so much more Monday back to you.
Speaker 2 (31:38):
I vote we isolate it and use it after.
Speaker 1 (31:41):
Jack Armstrong and Joe, The Armstrong and Getty Show, The
arm Strong and Getty Show.
Speaker 5 (31:59):
Every time we hear a Hispanic name on TV, whether
or not the anchor is Hispanic, we suddenly have to
shape shift into a perfect Hispanic accent.
Speaker 2 (32:08):
Police arrested twenty five year.
Speaker 5 (32:09):
Old elan Alain Sanchez, and I mean that, honestly, Why
do we do that? When I say Alejandra Myorcis. I
just say Alejandra Myorcis, but on CNN it's Aleehendral Majorkis.
Speaker 2 (32:21):
I'm Irish.
Speaker 5 (32:21):
When police arrests someone with an Irish name, I don't
say police just arrested twenty five year old Charlie McLaughlin.
Speaker 2 (32:27):
Stop that. Stop fabulous. So this is getting some mockery.
Oh it was good.
Speaker 3 (32:36):
There's an article in The New York Times, a hot
accessory at the intersection of faith and culture, seen on influencers,
pop stars and White House staff. Cross necklaces are popping
up everywhere, and it's getting mockery from the parts of
the country where people been wearing cross necklaces forever. Like
I think every girl I've ever dated in my life
for across necklace.
Speaker 2 (32:59):
At some point.
Speaker 3 (32:59):
So the idea that The New York Times is acting
like this is some interesting intersection of faith and culture
that has occurred is just an example of how out
of touch they are with the giant chunk of America that, for.
Speaker 4 (33:13):
Instance, has voted for Trump. Twys New York is a
fascinating place in so many ways.
Speaker 2 (33:21):
I am pro New York, but.
Speaker 4 (33:23):
New Yorker's self regard has annoyed me since I was.
Speaker 2 (33:27):
Eleven years old. Right, no kidding.
Speaker 4 (33:31):
The rest of us are quite happy and fascinated by
life and have many opportunities for art, culture, the outdoors,
et cetera.
Speaker 2 (33:38):
Whatever we prefer, we're fine with a lesser being well.
Speaker 1 (33:42):
Right.
Speaker 3 (33:42):
The thing that annoys me about New York and to
a certain extent, LA and lots of big cities really,
but in particular New York and LA is the people
who live there their assumption that we all want to
be there. We just haven't figured out how to get
there yet. We're trying, we just haven't been successful enough
to live there, and you know they're and that's fine.
(34:03):
I belove New York and Los Angeles. But everybody doesn't
want to live there. There are some people, I know.
Speaker 2 (34:09):
That's funny.
Speaker 3 (34:10):
I was listening to Joonah Goldberg the other day on
a podcast, and he grew up on the Upper West Side,
you know, right next to Central Park. That's the way
he grew up. And he was saying some things that
I and he was just so wrong about. I wish
I could have had a conversation, like a loving conversation
with him, saying, dude, you just and I don't blame
you for not knowing. You grew up with a completely
different lifestyle than I did. But I know plenty of
(34:31):
people who might kill themselves if they had to live
in New York. They would contemplate suicide if they had
to live in New York, right right, I'll And it's universal.
I mean, we've talked about this, having moved around the country, Fairmount.
You live in Kansas, they talk about.
Speaker 4 (34:50):
How stupid Missourians, sure, whatever, And you're in France they
say Belgians or morons. Just everybody likes to, you know,
say human foible. But I I'll never forget. I was
having a conversation with a friend in the San Francisco
Bay area years ago, and at the conclusion of a
long conversation about his brutal commute and it's awful taxes
(35:11):
and is incomprehensible mortgage payments and the rest of it,
a town outside the Bay area came up, and he
was like, oh, poor bastards, right, if.
Speaker 2 (35:22):
Only they could live in the Bay Area. I'm like, wow, okay,
never mind anyway.
Speaker 3 (35:29):
One thing about moving my whole life, and then as
an adult also is realizing that everybody loves where they're from.
And I wish just more people would understand you like
where you're from. That's perfectly fine. You don't need to
hate on other places. You like where you're from because
it's what you're familiar with, your people, your friends, your stuff.
That's perfectly all right. But you don't have to pretend
(35:50):
that you have to hate all the other places. But
everybody does.
Speaker 4 (35:54):
It's human nature, apparently, especially because we're all Americans except
for legal immigrants.
Speaker 2 (35:58):
You're not get out except for twenty million illegal
Speaker 1 (36:01):
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